Notices by Police State UK (policestateuk@mastodon.me.uk), page 2

"Now that Donald Trump is headed back to the White House, with Elon Musk in tow, there is not even a pretense of hope on that platform for anyone who voted against Trump. It’s better late than never, but it’s well and truly time to cut X loose."

#USpol

https://slate.com/technology/2024/11/delete-your-x-twitter-account-threads-elon-musk-donald-trump.html

"With the ‘west’ distracted by the US presidential election, #Israel has announced the complete partition of northern #Gaza – and has designated the hundreds of thousands of civilians still living there as combatants and therefore targets."

"The United Nations estimate that there are still 400,000 civilians besieged in northern Gaza, where no food has been allowed to enter for over a month and refugee camps and hospitals have been relentlessly bombed."

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/06/breaking-israel-announces-complete-partition-of-north-gaza-and-designates-400000-people-as-combatants/

"US officials say that the Kremlin’s efforts to undermine confidence in the election and foment unrest are likely to continue into January."

#USpol #Russia

https://www.wired.com/story/russia-election-disinformation-2024-election-day/

"An increase in public investment does three things. It lifts the capacity of the economy permanently by improving the public infrastructure – everything from hospitals, court buildings and public housing to improved transport, utility provision and R&D. This is especially true after years of public underinvestment – following a war, say, or a prolonged period of austerity."

#UKpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/03/investment-drives-growth-thats-why-gloomy-forecasters-are-so-wrong-about-the-budget

"Netanyahu has been accused repeatedly of stalling on a deal in order to avoid the collapse of his coalition government. Anything short of a total victory over Hamas is anathema to his far-right allies, and he is believed to see staying in office as the best way of avoiding prosecution in fraud, bribery and breach of trust cases filed in 2019."

#Israel #Palestine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/03/netanyahu-in-fresh-storm-over-gaza-hostages-after-arrests-linked-to-alleged-leak

"#ElonMusk’s conversations with #Putin would clearly violate Musk’s security clearance if he failed to properly report them to the U.S. government. If classified information was leaked, Musk could be required to give up control of #SpaceX, which holds the majority of his companies’ government contracts."

#USpol

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-musk-thinks-hell-be-fcked-if

"The Treasury said a big hike in the minimum wage for under-21s comes after the government instructed the Low Pay Commission, which recommends minimum wage rates, to include the #CostOfLiving in its calculations."

#UKpolitics #Budget #MinimumWage #LivingWage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y37wqnvwxo

"Every time the minimum wage goes up there are some voices who predict this will drive up unemployment. Every time they are wrong."

"Israel’s parliament has voted to ban a nearly eight-decade-old United Nations agency that provides essential services for Palestinian refugees, a move that could have devastating consequences for millions of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation."

#Israel #Palestine #UNRWA

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/28/middleeast/unrwa-israel-knesset-vote-ban-palestinians-intl/index.html

"Rachel Reeves is facing calls to introduce a “child lock” to protect spending on child-related benefits in the autumn #budget, a move campaigners say would dramatically reduce the number of children in #poverty."

#UKpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/22/rachel-reeves-urged-introduce-child-lock-benefits-reduce-poverty

“No wealthy nation that is intent on growth can continue to have a child poverty rate this high. Child poverty is not bad luck, it is driven by systemic failure and political decisions.”

"The #Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a hedge fund that stood to profit from #Israel’s war in #Gaza."

#UKpolitics

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/keir-starmer-labour-party-quadrature-donation-arms-companies-israel-war-gaza/

"Kier Starmer sent a warning shot across the bows of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), whose mission is to protect the British public against scams and abuses by monopolists and other nasty global forces. Taking sides with the monopolists in the room – and against his own regulator. It’s not a good sign."

#UKpolitics #Labour #Monopolies

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/15/starmer-red-tape-big-business-labour?utm_source=press.coop

"What we got was the propaganda equivalent of an air ball, as the two men’s combined presence somehow managed to be even less than the sum of its parts..."

#USpol #Trump #MAGA #ElonMusk

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-elon-musk-rally-weird-butler-republicans-assassination-tim-walz-b2624632.html

@johnlogic Isn't the point that the tea in China is valuable though?

"As homes were smashed, trucks swept down roads that had turned into rivers and residents were killed [by #HurricaneHelene], in the placid setting of Southwark crown court two young women from #JustStopOil, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, were sentenced to two years and 20 months, respectively, for throwing tomato soup at the glass protecting Van Gogh’s Sunflowers."

#UKpolitics #Climate #Protest

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/prison-uk-justice-system-fossil-fuel-industry

"We’re seeing in real-time what settler-colonialism is and what it does. In the past, people didn’t witness the process on live-stream, so they had the excuse of ignorance. Today, we have no such excuse."

#Israel #Lebanon #Gaza

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/today-is-not-a-day-for-satire-its

"A heckler is removed from the #Labour conference hall" - while being quite deliberately throttled, from the look of it. 😮

#UKpolitics

https://news.sky.com/story/hecklers-interrupt-chancellor-rachel-reeves-speech-at-labour-conference-13220723

"The Israeli military has said there is a “high probability” that three hostages found dead in a tunnel at the end of last year were mistakenly killed in a strike by the Israeli military."

#Israel #Palestine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/israeli-military-admits-high-probability-it-mistakenly-killed-hostages

"Some in #Labour make fun of the idea that #Corbyn supporters treat the 2017 general election like a victory when, in fact, it was a loss. But in reality, the Labour leader had defied his detractors who were expecting a repeat of Michael Foot’s 1983 election drubbing and instead watched Corbyn strip Theresa May of her parliamentary majority. Corbyn had won 40% of the national vote, more than the 35% that handed Tony Blair a significant majority in 2005."

#UKpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/14/corbyn-had-flown-too-close-to-the-sun-how-labour-insiders-battled-the-left-and-plotted-the-partys-path-back-to-power